Deputy Director, Program Implementation

Program Quality 35%

• Under the supervision of the State Director, the Deputy Director is responsible for overall state program performance; ensuring high-quality program delivery and that annual state program results targets are met or exceeded.
• Ensure program enrollment goals are met and maintained across all partner sites.
• Provide on-the-ground start-up support of new early childhood development and school age programs, and community impact initiatives in Washington state.
• Serve as the Child Safeguarding Focal Point for the state, ensuring all staff, partners and volunteers are trained to prevent, identify and report incidents; monitoring reports and addressing incidents, and working with the SCUS Director of Child Safeguarding to implement updates and ensure effective application of policies and procedures.
• Conduct frequent program data reviews to ensure timely and accurate data entry, identify trends, and address gaps in program performance.
• Coordinate and support the delivery of partner program training, results-reviews and lessons learned meetings, and ongoing technical assistance.
• Work with Program Specialists and Sr. Specialists, Program Implementation to collaboratively identify modified approaches and provide customized program interventions as needed.
• In the event Save the Children responds to a disaster in the state, collaborate with the U.S. Emergencies team and response team on the ground to support any response and recovery needs.

Partnership Management: 35%

• Responsible for establishing, managing, and maintaining healthy relationships with program-delivery, collective impact, and emergency network partners across the state.
• In collaboration with the Director, Program Implementation, establish state-, district-, and site-level partnership strategies; building relationships with key stakeholders, conducting partner selection analyses, maintaining a prospective partner pipeline, and supporting the acquisition of funding for program expansion.
• Oversee the site-level annual Partner Planning and budget negotiation process across the state; ensuring partner plans and budgets are completed on time, and align with program strategy and donor requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring that all programs across the state start on time, are adequately staffed, and have all program supplies and resources needed for implementation across the program year.
• Troubleshoot partner issues requiring escalation, and work collaboratively to resolve conflicts that could negatively impact programming and/or the partnership.

Management and Operational Excellence: 20%

• Support the development and management of state-level annual budget and plan; ensuring compliance with finance, operations and donor requirements.
• Oversee the state portfolio of partner sub-awards; ensuring efficient and allowable use of funds.
• Provide regular, timely communication to State Program Director and other key team members as needed with progress updates, partner/program concerns, and other key areas of operation.
• Responsible for ensuring state staff and partners have access to strong knowledge management tools and resources needed for program implementation, data entry, monitoring, sharing practices, and managing daily operations.
• Build and maintain a high performing team – participate in the development of state organizational design and staffing plan; lead recruitment efforts for state Program Specialist and Collective Impact staff; and promote staff learning and development goals.
• Work with the Operations coordinator to ensure equitable and timely distribution of GIK to partners across the state.

State Strategic Support: 10%

• Work closely with Director to develop and implement state growth and expansion plan(s).
• Support the advancement of USPA’s Policy and Advocacy goals at the State-level and communicate advocacy efforts with partners, as needed.
• Under the direction of the Director, conduct and support activities that increase the visibility of Save the Children’s work in the state.
• Work with Director and other key team members to plan and support donor site visits as needed.    
• Serve as a core member of the kindergarten readiness and third grade reading USPA results teams.
• As needed, support the Director with maintaining and growing relationships critical to the expansion of Save the Children’s programs and collective impact initiatives.